On Monday 13 May 2002 06:51 pm, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 2002 23:34:16 +0100 > > "Alex Hunsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are there any net cards with a good reputation for stability and ease of > > install (i.e. not having to compile my own driver would be a plus)? > > Personally, I'm partial to the Realtek based cards (used frequently on > inexpensive cards). The cards are fairly generic and very stable in my > experience.
I buy rtl8139.o cards for as low as USD6.00 not counting s/h. The 8139 circuitry is embedded in some Biostar M7VKQ mobos I am using as well. They are not high performance cards - probably better suited in for use in a workstations. I use them in servers that are performance limited by a 56Kb WAN connections. I use an older version of the driver for successful operation in the Biostar M7VKQ mobo (true for both on-board and PCI add-on). Compiling drivers is not hard to do. http://www.scyld.com/page/support/network/ has all the details you need. My experience is derived from having built 9 systems based on home rolled 2.2.14 kernels. I can report that one of my machines with a PCI 8139 successfully worked with 2.4.x and related drivers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
